Helen Exley Quotes

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, “This could change your life.” —Helen Exley

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. I Ching

I think there is in friendship, an instant recognition – a kind of loving. It needs just a word, in passing, the touch of a hand – yet parting is loss and the tiny ache of regret stays with us always.

The house-cat is a four-legged quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners. It is what is sometimes called a tame animal, though it feeds on mice and birds of prey. Its colours are striped, it does not bark, but breathes through its nose instead of its mouth. Cats also mow, which you all have heard. Cats have nine liveses, but which is seldom wanted in this country, coz' of Christianity. Cats eat meat and most anythink speshuelly where you can't afford. That is all about cats." (From a schoolboy's essay, 1903.)

Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, "No thoroughfare." But love came laughing by and cried, "I enter everywhere." Herbert Shipman

O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire! Robert Browning

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysse Shelley

Be careful when speaking. You create the world around you with your words.

The great and good receive their accolades. But love can surround in glory the lives of little people. Pam Brown